The DeVille comes in these. Once a colour is chosen, it’s done.

A number we chose to stand for the paint. Nitrocellulose over wood is not one colour: it is a colour under a clear coat that yellows, over a wood that shows through a translucent, in a light that changes it. The chip is the nearest flat thing.

Every screen is set differently, and most phones make everything a touch brighter and bluer than it is. Two people looking at the same chip are not seeing the same colour.

Closer, because it is the paint on a guitar. But it is a phone photograph taken in the shed, and a relic changes a colour at every edge it wears through.

A sprayed sample in your hand, or the guitar in the shed in daylight. Ask for either before you decide, and treat everything above as a way to start the conversation, not to finish it.